Posted on 08/17/2018 12:34:09 PM PDT by JeepersFreepers
Conservative leaders are calling on the Texas governor to prevent non-citizens and other ineligible persons from voting illegally. According to a statement issued at today’s press conference, more than 280,000 non-citizens in Texas are registered to vote, with another four million registered voters in question.
Direct Action Texas (DAT), a watchdog organization known for exposing mail ballot fraud in numerous counties across Texas, released a statement today regarding its concerns. Aaron Harris, the group’s Executive Director, told Texas Scorecard:
“We are calling on Gov. Abbott to direct the Secretary of State to verify citizenship of all voter registrations. I see no reason for the governor to not implement this practical step to ensure the November election, and all future elections, are held with the integrity Texans demand. The governor could require that these changes be made tomorrow, if he so desired.”
Harris was joined at the event by JoAnn Fleming, Executive Director of Grassroots America: We the People (GAWTP). Fleming, a strong advocate for election integrity and conservative causes in Texas, had this to say:
“It’s a reasonable expectation that we Texans would demand that only citizens be allowed to vote. It’s time for the political finger pointing and excuse-making to end. We’re asking Gov. Abbott to continue fulfilling the promises he’s made to protect the integrity of the ballot box and take the next step to advance the success he’s already had in making Texas’ elections more secure.”
DAT and GAWTP have teamed up with the Texas Conservative Grassroots Coalition to pen a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott calling for swift action. As previously stated, Abbott can instruct the Secretary of State’s Office to verify the citizenship of persons registered to vote in Texas, and notify local county registrars of their findings.
The coalition letter reads:
“Unfortunately, Texans continue to see headlines of non-citizens voting in our elections. In Tarrant County, Rosa Ortega, a legal resident, non-citizen, had been voting for 10 years before being caught and convicted. In Beaumont, an El Salvadoran was indicted on multiple federal charges for having voted in the 2016 Presidential election…In a recent interview Starr County District Attorney Omar Escobar confirmed that non-U.S. citizens are on the voter lists in his county. He is quoted stating, ‘That non-citizens are registered to vote is beyond question. That non-citizens are voting in Starr County is also beyond question.’ They are registered and voting, the only remaining question is, how many.”
Furthermore, roughly four million – or 30 percent – of Texas’ 14.1 million registered voters cannot be found in Texas Department of Public Safety’s database, according to the coalition. It’s unknown how many of the four million are improperly registered and voting illegally.
In the 2017 legislative session, at the petitioning of the same conservative coalition, Abbott made election integrity a priority by including it in his special session call. Lawmakers acted, passing Senate Bill 5, which increased penalties for people who commit election crimes related to mail ballots.
Upon signing the bill into law on August 11, 2017, Abbott issued a statement declaring, “It is a primary function of government to protect citizens’ right to vote, and I will not allow the integrity of the ballot box to be compromised in Texas.”
“Citizenship verification in voter registration is a must for Texas,” says Logan Churchwell of Public Interest Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm dedicated to election integrity. “Non-citizens are accused of influencing local elections in the RGV and millions more can do the same by accident. Verification protects U.S. citizens and immigrants alike.” The Foundation has documented non-citizens registered and voting in several states, including Texas, and is suing Harris County in federal court for refusing access to public records of non-citizens found on the county’s voter rolls.
State Sen. Don Huffines (R–Dallas) has already committed to file legislation that would force the Secretary of State to verify citizenship of all registered voters. Similar legislation had previously been filed by outgoing State Sen. Van Taylor (R–Plano), but Republicans didn’t move the bill.
True the vote
Where in the world is Jeff Sessions?
The anti-American Islamonazi-Communist-SorozNazi conspiracy was EXTREMELY upset HilLIARy blew the election.
They plan to get control back!
How else can they turn Texas blue?
When did that end? I thought it was still in effect.
Jeff is getting his back 40 attended to by a young illegal.
Nothing. It's just a chance to play the part of a mean girl and call Cruz fat. SMH
The only people dumber than Never Trumpers are the Never Cruzers.
Some people just can’t let it go. Amazingly, both Trump and Cruz have moved on.
Ping.
We call them “Mexicans”.
And, Or
7-11, Quick Stop, etc owners....
It's not that I don't believe them, but how does DAT know dat?
I agree; I am afraid TCruz is not fully informed about the threat he faces on Nov. 6. As Jimmuh Carter would say of the “energy crisis,” “it’s a real” threat.
Hostage wrote:
“Greg Abbott is the best governor in the USA, period. As soon as he verifies this report is accurate, we can be assured he will come down hard on the perpetrators.
I know from last year and the year before that the organization behind this report is top-notch. So I expect this disclosure will have far-reaching effects. This was not a sudden discovery, it’s been under investigation for a long time.”
Many thanks, good for Gov. Abbott !!!
WHAT A GREAT VEHICLE TO GET THE ILLEGALS CONVICTED OF A FELONY AND THEN “BYE-BYE”!!!!!!
Patience, my FRiend. ... Any day now... /s
Shades of a poll tax.
This must not be allowed to happen in Texas! Does the governor know, and is he doing something?
Ping!
All Abbott has to do is look out his east window to see thousands of illegals right across I-35. Long past time for the raids and deportations.
Deportation is a temporary inconvenience at best, for most illegals, and that's ONLY if they get caught, and ONLY if the arresting authorities choose to follow the letter of the law.
Given that there are 40 million of them in our country, the chances of any one of them facing actual deportation are between slim and none.
If we really want to change their behavior, we have to make the penalties for illegal entry too gruesome to confront.
I suggest stiff prison sentences with no possibility for parole as a starting point.
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